When Nationalism Wears a Mask: A Call for Clear Thinking and Collective Responsibility
During the Labour Day weekend, a group named the “Second Sons,” a Canadian men’s nationalist club, rallied in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Wearing black shirts and white masks, they gathered at Queenston Heights Park, posed by the Sir Isaac Brock monument, and chanted unsettling slogans. Their rhetoric—speaking of stolen birthrights, cultural replacement, and national decay—echoes patterns seen in…